Welcome to the The Little Flower Community website!

Little Flower is a cooperative-style community living in the Beechwood neighborhood of Rochester, NY.

Members and friends of the LFC have a shared interest in community, social issues, sustainability, cooperative living and the like. We hold events, host guests, have potlucks and work together to make the Beechwood community and Rochester at large a more awesome place.

Building The Future

Mar 26, 2015 by

And when we say building, we mean building! The Little Flower Community has a new house, and members are pitching in to transform this abandoned property from neighborhood eyesore to neighborhood asset. Check out these photos!...

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(585) Magazine Features LFC!

Feb 1, 2015 by

(585) magazine, greater Rochester’s only city-regional magazine, launched in May 2013 and covers food and drink, culture, destinations, and personalities in the region. And now it covers the Little Flower, too! Pick up the latest issue for a look at LFC as Rochester’s magazine media sees us! (And if you can’t find a copy, read the snapshot we took of it here: click here to read page one, and click here to read page...

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Mushroom Cultivation Workshop!

Jan 24, 2015 by

It’s cold outside! So today we’re reminiscing about planting garlic, harvesting veggies, saving seed…and establishing mushroom gardens! So join the Little Flower Collective later this year for our annual Basic Outdoor Mushroom Cultivation Workshop! Learn how to establish mushroom patches within your veggie and plant beds, plugging logs and other techniques that ANYONE can do using a few readily available/free materials! It’s a blast and it includes a delicious lunch! A lunch that will be loaded with local organic ingredients, local foraged mushrooms and LOVE!! Please join us! Support and help create mycelial connections that will fruit change, food and sustainability! So stay in touch, and drop in when the sun comes back out,...

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Little Flower In The News!

Jan 10, 2015 by

The LFC is the D & C headline story on intentional communities! “It was the monthly Tuesday night potluck at Little Flower Community on Parsells Avenue in the Beechwood neighborhood, and the crowd was the sort to make a fire marshal antsy — but a community organizer proud… Click here to read about what Rochester’s top media have to say about the Little...

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